Improvement in hand corn-planters



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Letters Patent No. 94,910, dated September 14, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND CORN-PLANTERS.

MOH

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making para of the same.

,Tol vall fl'thcm 'it may concern y Beit-,known that I, W. S. PELHAM, of Kirkville, W'apello county, Iowa, have invented-a new and useful :lmprovement in Hand Corn-Planter; 'and I do herebyQdeclal-e that the following is 'a full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the acceuipanying drawings, and to the letters markedthereon.

p Figure `l. is a perspective view of the planter.

Figure 2, a'seetional elevation. Figure 3, .a sectional elevation on line x :t of lig. 2. Figure 4, a bottom' View of the `concave bottom of the box. p

Figure 5, a section ofthe same. Thesame letters indicate like parts in the several `figures. l Y Y Myinvention relates tohand corn-planters; and My improvement consists in the combination 'and arrangement of the seed-slide, scatterer, and ilexible partit-ion for keeping the kernels separated.

` To enable those skilled in the art .to make and use my' invention, I will proceed to describe its'construction and operation;

A A represent the side pieces, which are hinged together neartheir lower ends, where they are provided with blades, a c', and having handles near their upper ends.

B, the seedebox, attached to one of the side pieces.

O, the seed-slide, which is"^` attached `to the other siden piece, entering under the bottom of the seed-box, and delivering the seed in measured quantities into the lower portion of-the planter.

D, a piece of India rubber, serving as a brush.

The above brief reference to these several parts of the planter will be sufficient toan understanding of the case, they forming no part of my invention, and being similar in construction to otherv planters.

one side ofthe scatter-er. under the slide, remedies this defect, and the scattered seed is kept separated by a partition until itis depos- E represents a ^shaped piece of sheet-1netal, one

'end of which is to be secured tothe side piece A', di-

rectly under the seed-slide, while its other end passes through a ^shaped slot in the side piece A. It is to be of suicient length to remain in -this slot when the sidepieces are furthest apart. As the seed leaves the slide it will fall on this scatterer, which distributes the kernels on each side of it. l

-F represents a flexible partition, extending from the soatterer down to the blades. `Its oiice is to keep the seed, which has been scattered, separated until it can be deposited in the ground.

In planting corn, the kernels to be deposited in each hill should be a little scattered. Devices for accomplishing this have been employed in planters heretoforo, but have proved to be ineffective, for the reason that the scatter-e1' was some distance below the slide, so that if the operator did not keep tlie planter in a perfectly vertical position, all the seed would fall on Mine, beingxplaced. directly ited.

Having thus described my invention,

lVhat Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination and arrangement of seed-slide C, scatterer E, and lexible partition F, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specificatiomin the presence of two subscribing' witnesses.

W.S. PELHAM.

Vitilesses:

F. L. MoN-AIR, M. E. S.. RUBEL. 

